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| Nine-day Akash missile campaign end |
| Akash being launched from Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa
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| INDIA
, 22-December-2007
0:55:28 AM |
| A nine-day campaign, involving the surface-to-air Akash missile, radars, mobile launchers and support systems, concluded on Friday at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, near Balasore, Orissa, with the firing of a missile.
According to Prahlada, Chief Controller, R&D, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), an Akash missile was fired from a mobile launcher on Friday at 2.15 p.m. to destroy an unmanned aircraft.
“This was to demonstrate the comprehensive and complete capability of the Akash system to accurately guide the missile and destroy a target,” he said. A single missile was used to destroy a single target, which was flying more than 20 km away.
Single target
On Wednesday, two missiles were fired at a single target, which was a body towed by a pilot-less aircraft.
Ever since the campaign began on December 13, a total of six missiles were fired on different days from the ITR with the full Akash system working in tandem.
R. R. Panyam has been the Project Director of all the six Akash flights.
Mr. Prahlada said the successful campaign “should set aside any apprehension or doubt in the minds of the users — the Army and the Air Force — on the readiness and effectiveness of the Akash missile system.”
The campaign was “a fantastic success and it has international significance in both technology and operation,” he added.
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